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by Marvin Johnston

Does anyone still use the older dot matrix printers? The husband of a friend of mine passed away and I am helping her dispose of his classic computer stuff. If there is interest in them, I can put together a list of what she has (and I can see) in the six storage lockers :). The printers I saw today used the wide perforated paper. My memory is non existent after about 1 hour :). My current plan is to attend VCFMW in September, and I can probably bring stuff with me. The ones I remember are the Diablo 630 (?), Juki, and a number of others of similar vintage. Yes, he had half a dozen or so Kaypro and Osbourne computers in the first 18" or so of the storage unit plus one IBM compatible that I could see along with maybe six B&W monitors. There are also a number of bankers boxes filled with 5 1/4" and 3.5" floppy disks and period books. Marvin

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Re: Intel Developers' Insight CD-ROM collection archived anywhere?

by Kevin Bowling

Can someone upload the ISOs of what we do have to archive.org? I found http://intel-vintage-developer.eu5.org/ but I'd like to grab it without the free web host ads. On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 4:47 PM Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Oct 2020, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: > > > > Sadly neither seems to be among the files I have copied. I could yet > > > check Intel Dec 1995 Data on Demand discs I happen to have, and do have > > > here, but they are cumbersome to handle as they use a proprietary format > > > requiring a DOS app to access, and yet more hassle to get anything > > > exported (assuming I can recall how I did that many years ago), so it'll > > > take a little. > > > > If you have some Intel "Data on Demand" CD-ROMs it would be nice if > > .ISO images of those could be captured and uploaded somewhere. Then > > leave it up to anyone interested to deal with extracting documents > > from them. > > Hmm, I'm not sure of the copyright status, even that those were available > free of charge. It would be good to have the stuff preserved though, so > I'll see if I can get some ack from Intel. I have good experience overall > with such enquiries. Ditto about the Insight CDs. > > > I found this document while looking online. It's not clear to me if > > that is a list of documents that are contained on the December 1995 > > "Data on Demand" CD-ROMs or if some of those are only available > > elsewhere. > > > > http://alt.ife.tugraz.at/datashts/intel/litguide.pdf > > This looks to me like a list of orderable hardcopy documents. I still > have a long line of those on a bookshelf. But indeed most if not all were > available on said CDs, and some were only there. > > Anyway, sorry to take so long, but such is life. I finally got to my set > of Insight CDs and guess what? First that I looked at was October 1996, > my oldest, and it does have what you look for: > > $ ls -la fbldr16*.zip > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4619852 Jul 8 1996 fbldr16.zip > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1359076 Jul 8 1996 fbldr16a.zip > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1253664 Jul 8 1996 fbldr16b.zip > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1076370 Jul 8 1996 fbldr16c.zip > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 930808 Jul 8 1996 fbldr16d.zip > $ > > Do you still need it? I have lost the FTP site I used to host things on > and I can't afford the time to set up a new one right away. But I can > e-mail you this stuff offlist if your mailbox can swallow it. The choice > is either one big file, first in the listing above, or the other four, > which are the same contents, split, that I would send in a separate e-mail > each. I could split it further too, I know how it worked in the old days. > > By the look of it all the documentation included with FLASHBuilder is in > the form of MS Windows help files rather than PDF. > > Either way please let me know. > > Maciej

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Re: SCAMP at 61 (IBM Scientific Computer And Modular Processor) was Re: SCAMP at 50 (IBM 5100)

by Tom Stepleton

I have to assume that the SCAMP used in the IBM 5100 Portable Computer and relatives must have been a great deal smaller than the earlier machine. As such, a logical and unambiguous way to refer to it is "SCAMP Shrimpy." I hope this is helpful, --Tom

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SCAMP at 50 (IBM 5100)

by Steve Lewis

For anyone interested, I'm placing my SCAMP notes here! Had an incredibly great opportunity to learn more about it. https://voidstar.blog/scamp-a-review-50-years-later/

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Old Professional/350 software, any of this out there

by Chris Zach

Starting to go through my boxes of POS stuff. I know of course that 3.2 is out there (minus the Pro/Communications option which has a bad disk in the distro) however are these disks out there now? Pro/Venix 1.0 on floppies POS V2.0a on floppies POS version 1.5 (with test diskette, maintenance application, a thing called Pro/Pre labelled "Diskette system", system overview and instruction disks) POS V1.7 (I have that here somewhere) Pro/Basic Version 1.0 and 1.2 SPSS/X For Professional (this is a really interesting one, anyone heard of this?) If so let me know and I won't copy them. If not I'll go over to the mighty Deskpro/XE and start sucking the data off for archives.... Thanks! Chris (Hoping to find old drivers or scaffolding or something that will give me a hint into how DEC ported POS)

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May need help buying computer in Houston - I’m in CA

by Steven Stengel

I want to buy an old computer from a guy I don’t know in Houston (I’ll pay shipping to CA), but it’s a lot of money, and I don’t want to lose it - what are my options? Thanks- Steve.

3 years, 1 month

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1-click exploits was Re: BEWARE: Phishing

by Todd Pisek

Be aware that clicking on a malicious url can result on malware or spyware being installed on your machine without any further action on your part. All browsers have vulnerabilities. The most famous of these was the older version of Pegasus by NSO back in the 2014-2016 timeframe. These so called 1-click exploits are well known to bad actors. It’s a continuous cat and mouse game between exploit writers and infosec. For the interested, look at this report regarding Apple and the “Trident” series of exploits from 2016. https://info.lookout.com/rs/051-ESQ-475/images/pegasus-exploits-technical-d… —-Todd P.S. Exploits have evolved considerably since Trident and now include 0-click exploits. See Google’s Project Zero for instance.

3 years, 1 month

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Well, SPSS for RSX is sorta up.

by Chris Zach

Copied all the files onto my Gotek, it's SO EASY to just turn a dial to select a disk! Anyway, loaded all the files, but when I try to run them it says it's missing PROF77 Common. My guess is that's the same block as F77OTS, but how does one load a common block with a different name? I forgot.... Directory DU0:[SPSS] 28-JUL-2023 18:06 ANVTSK.TSK;1 173. C 28-JUL-2023 18:01 NPTTSK.TSK;1 189. C 28-JUL-2023 18:02 SRVTSK.TSK;1 167. C 28-JUL-2023 18:02 SPSTSK.TSK;2 576. C 28-JUL-2023 17:59 TTSTSK.TSK;2 116. C 28-JUL-2023 18:00 SPSS.INS;2 3. C 28-JUL-2023 18:00 RPTTSK.TSK;1 190. C 28-JUL-2023 18:02 SPSS.TSK;1 136. C 28-JUL-2023 18:03 SCATSK.TSK;1 117. C 28-JUL-2023 18:03 SPSS.MNU;1 7. C 28-JUL-2023 18:03 SPSS.HLP;1 124. C 28-JUL-2023 18:03 PARTSK.TSK;1 130. C 28-JUL-2023 18:03 SPSS.MSG;1 18. C 28-JUL-2023 18:04 SPRTSK.TSK;1 98. C 28-JUL-2023 18:04 SPSS.ERR;1 69. C 28-JUL-2023 18:04 TEST1.LST;1 21. 28-JUL-2023 18:05 GSS77.SAV;1 123. 28-JUL-2023 18:05 TEST2.LST;1 27. 28-JUL-2023 18:05 TEST3.LST;1 21. 28-JUL-2023 18:05 TEST1.CMD;1 1. 28-JUL-2023 18:05 TEST2.CMD;1 2. 28-JUL-2023 18:05 TEST3.CMD;1 6. 28-JUL-2023 18:05 Total of 2314./2325. blocks in 22. files $ run spss INS -- Common block not loaded PROF77

3 years, 1 month

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Cool program found for Pro/350

by Chris Zach

Over the weekend I picked up a Pro/350 from the System Source swap. The good news is I traded something of similar size for it, and more importantly I didn't bring anything else home :-) Anyway, it's a pretty basic system with 10mb ST412 drive, 128k memory on board, 256kb memory expansion, disk controller, floppy controller and RX50 (with the usual loose pad, glued back in), and a video card WITHOUT the extended bitmap option. Brought it home, pulled everything, checked the power supply (good), got the drive spinning, and since drives like this tend to be precious I sucked the data off it using a Gesswin emulator (best money I have spent). Sucked the data off with no errors, thus everything is preserved for eternity. I'll take a look at the drive and see about using a bit of watch oil on the shaft to lubricate the bearings and put this disk back into a "usable" category. Even better: Fired up and compiled xhomer on my Raspberry Pi CM3+, loaded the image, and sure enough: There is a POS 2.0 install on the disk, with a really neat app called "Prostar/300" Seems to be an office tool for real estate office, specifically farm management, investment, and amortization. Even better it looks like all the data was stored on Floppies (now long gone) so no PII issues. And there is a word processor built into the app along with the normal PROSE editor. I'll tool around with it for a bit, then put the disk image up on crystel.com. An interesting application, can be easily transferred to a real disk using a gesswin emulator or put it on xhomer. :-) Pretty nice application from 1986 vintage, I can see this being used in offices around the midwest. Chris

3 years, 1 month

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F/S: Lego robot kits for IBM PC

by Evan Koblentz

Around the middle of the 1980s, Lego made a robotics system for 8-bit computers, including the Apple II, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, and IBM PC. The system includes a hardware interface (set #9750, "Interface A"), a card or cable (differs for each computer; the PC-ISA card is set #9771), and various electronic Lego bits (sensors, lights, motors, etc., the main set of which is #9700.) I recently acquired several of the PC-ISA version. I am selling these as a bundle: 1x-9750, 1x-9771, 2x-9700. The price is $400 + s/h from New Jersey. Full details about the sets are on my website, www.brickhacks.com. The site isn't finished and some links will not work, but the meat of it is all there. I'll also be posting how-to videos on YouTube (@TechnicallyEvan) but I can't promise when that will happen -- I'm very busy in real life. All of the manuals are on the Internet Archive, under the "vintage Lego robotics" collection. Interested buyers should send me a private message to evan(a)snarc.net.

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